Tuesday, January 19, 2010

...so how will 'Rogue Wave' perform?

The following daily sailing runs are from Marco Nannini's Blog (Blogstar) site updated during the 2009 OSTAR race. Should give you an idea of how we will travel if we sail as well as Marco! His average was 130.5M a day and only 2 days below 100M - not bad for a single hander in an old yacht. Should do Sydney to Hobart in about five (5) days in favourable winds and seas.

'Two True', a brand spanking new 2009 model Beneteau 40, was the Overall Tattersalls Cup S2H H/cap winner, was 41st across the line and winner of IRC Div 4!

To give you an idea of our performance potential, this years S2H race place getters that had hadicapssimiliar to 'Rogue Wave' finished 7th, 14th, 19th and 25th out of 77 IRC yachts!

In IRC Div 4 where we would race the placings were 3rd (three hours behind 'Two True' on corrected time) 4th, 7th and 8th and finished between 5.6-5.9 days with an average speed between 5-6 knots!

No comments:

About Me

Being temporarily located in the US has presented an opportunity I could not pass up - to purchase Roaring Forty, a 1997 Lutra Design one-off Open 40 race yacht. In 2014 I competed in the Solo Tasman race and have again committed to rac e Rogue Wave in the 2018 race. Whilst she is still rated with a CAT I safety, I will look to prep a crew for the 2018 Rolex Sydney Hobart Race as a precursor to racing Roaring Forty to Hobart....damn I am looking forward to that ride!
Once the refit of Roaring Forty is complete we can tackle the 2019 AZAB and then the 2020 OSTAR, and maybe even the Transpacific (LA to Hawaii) and Melbourne to Osaka. I might find time for a little bit of work in between. Let the project (fun) begin!